Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is the liveliest bunch of 70-year-olds that you'll ever see," he says, remembering one of the first classes he took at the HILR. "It was a class in Elizabethan Drama. We didn't just read the plays; we acted them out. You should have seen everybody up there, playing the roles. At first we were pretty inhibited, but we loosened...
...plot comes straight out of an "I Love Lucy" episode. Lucy and Ethel go Elizabethan in the wily duo of Mrs. Alice Ford (Martha Warren) and Mrs. Meg Page (Allison Charney). Scheming against their ungainly admirer. Sir John Falstaff (William O. Beeman). The two women inevitably draw their husbands into the affair. Accused of infidelity by her jealous husband (David Williams). Mrs. Ford belts out a couple of high C's in literally one of the highest points in the opera...
...Vegas Hilton. With Actor Dennis Hopper, Comic Eddie Murphy and former King of Boxing Muhammad Ali in attendance, King presented Tyson with a blue chinchilla robe, a jeweled necklace and a scepter. After King shouted, "Long live the heavyweight king! Long live the king!", six trumpeters dressed in Elizabethan tunics blared a fanfare, and Ali placed a crown, studded with what King described as "baubles, rubies and fabulous doodads," on Tyson's head. Muttered the clearly embarrassed sovereign: "Does this mean I'm going to get bigger purses?" A more urgent question for Tyson: When he faces his first challenger...
...almost ten years, knew how to subdue a potentially embarrassing story and treated reporters well. His skills would have come in handy three weeks ago when the Queen's youngest son Edward organized a charity event in which he, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Fergie dressed in Elizabethan garb and raucously led teams in mock medieval jousts. Reporters were kept in a tent for six hours and forced to watch the proceedings on a video screen. At a press conference afterward, Edward was met with a decided lack of enthusiasm and stormed out, giving the papers their royals story...
Defining folk music as anything folks will listen to is too broad for Rush and Maple Hill, and confining it to Elizabethan ballads played on dulcimers is way too narrow. Most of the artists associated with Rush and Maple Hill play acoustic instruments, though Rush's keyboardist, Irwin Fisch, for instance, played a Baldwin grand rigged out with a synthesizer at Symphony Hall. Bill Morrissey is a quirky, funny New Hampshireman who sometimes performs with Rush, singing made-by-hand songs about how he should be working the second shift at the shoe factory, except that here...